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Details for "Balance The Straws"
(Field Town)

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NameBalance The Straws
StyleCotswold
Tradition (Fie) Field Town
New dance ?yes
Origin
Size of set6
HandsLong Stick
Tunes
Balance The Straws
References
Other NotesBelieved devised by Phoenix Morris in 1955. Widely adopted as 'traditional' Field Town dance. Leslie Saunders of Westminster Morris is believed to have put the dance to the tune collected in Badby,
CodecFieBLST
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TeamLocVars.
Acorn Yorkshire,UK (none)
Adlington Morris Men Bramhall, Greater Manchester.,UK (none)
Aldbury Hertfordshire,UK (none)
Angleterre Kentucky,USA (none)
Anstey Morris Men Leicestershire,UK (none)
Asheville North Carolina,USA set, notes, links
Banbury Cross Massachusetts,USA (none)
Bassett Street Hounds Syracuse, New York S,USA (none)
Bell's Angels Wiltshire,UK (none)
Belles of London City London,UK (none)
Benfieldside Morris & Sword Dancers Durham,UK (none)
Black Joak Sydney,Australia (none)
Blackheath Morris Men London,UK (none)
Bourne River Morris Dorset,UK (none)
Bradninch Millers Devon,UK (none)
Braybrooke Leicestershire,UK (none)
Britannia Morris, The Melbourne,Australia (none)
Broadwood Morris Men West Sussex,UK (none)
Cam Valley Morris Men Somerset,UK (none)
Cambridge Morris Men Cambridgeshire,UK (none)
Chalice Morris Men Somerset,UK (none)
Chameleonic Travelling,UK (none)
Chanctonbury Ring Morris West Sussex,UK (none)
Chapel-en-le-Frith Morris Derbyshire,UK (none)
Charlbury Finstock Oxfordshire,UK (none)
Chelmsford Essex,UK (none)
Chip Off The Old Derbyshire,UK notes
Colchester Morris Essex,UK (none)
Corby Conspiracy Leicestershire,UK (none)
Coton Cambridgeshire,UK (none)
Coventry Morris West Midlands,UK (none)
Cracken Morris Derbyshire,UK (none)
Cry Havoc Oxfordshire,UK (none)
Devil's Dyke Morris Men Cambridgeshire,UK (none)
Dolphin Morris Men Nottinghamshire,UK (none)
Earl of Stamford Cheshire,UK (none)
East Kent Morris Kent,UK (none)
East Suffolk Morris Men Suffolk,UK (none)
East Surrey Morris Men Surrey,UK (none)
Etcetera Morris Men Enfield, London,UK (none)
Exeter Morris Devon,UK (none)
Fenstanton Cambridgeshire,UK (none)
Festus Derriman Dorset,UK links
Five Rivers Yorkshire,UK (none)
Forest of Dean Morris Gloucestershire,UK (none)
Foresters Morris Nottinghamshire,UK (none)
Frome Valley Weymouth, Dorset,UK (none)
Full Moon Wales,UK (none)
Gloucestershire Morris Gloucestershire,UK (none)
Goose Feather Kent,UK (none)
Granta Blue Cambridgeshire,UK set
Green Man's Morris Staffordshire,UK (none)
Haddenham Mummers and Morris Buckinghamshire,UK (none)
Hageneth Suffolk,UK (none)
Hartley Morris Men Kent,UK (none)
Hastings RX Morris (formerly Mad Jacks) East Sussex,UK (none)
Heartwood New York State,USA (none)
Helier Morris Jersey,Channel Isles (none)
Helmondse Morrisdansers Helmond,Netherlands (none)
Hemlock Bedfordshire,UK (none)
Hexham Morrismen Hexham, Northumberland,UK (none)
Holt Wiltshire,UK (none)
Hoxon Hundred Suffolk,UK (none)
Icknield Way Morris Men Oxfordshire,UK (none)
Isca Wales,UK (none)
Kemp's Men of Norwich Norfolk,UK links
King's Morris Norfolk,UK tunes
Kingston Morris Surrey,UK (none)
Kingston Spring Grove Morris Surrey,UK (none)
Kinnerton Morris Cheshire,UK notes
Lagabag Suffolk,UK (none)
Lassington Oak Morris Men Gloucestershire,UK links
Letchworth Morris Hertfordshire,UK (none)
London Pride Morris London,UK (none)
Manchester Morris Lancashire,UK (none)
Men of Wight Isle Of Wight,UK (none)
Mianus River Connecticut,USA (none)
Middlesex Morris Massachusetts,USA (none)
Moorland Road Hot Steppers Avon,UK links
More or Less Virginia,USA set, links
Moreton Bay Fig San Diego, California,USA (none)
Muddy River Boston, MA,USA (none)
New Haven Connecticut,USA (none)
New St George Leicestershire,UK (none)
Newtowne MM Massachusetts,USA (none)
North Wood Surrey,UK (none)
Packington Morris Men North West Leicestershire (Ashby, Measham area),UK (none)
Renegade Pennsylvania,USA (none)
Richmond on Swale Morris Yorkshire,UK (none)
Ripley Morris Derbyshire,UK (none)
Romney Marsh Kent,UK (none)
Royal Oak Eydon, Northamptonshire,UK (none)
Rutland Morris Rutland,UK (none)
Shalesbrook East Sussex,UK (none)
Silkeborg Morris Men Silkeborg,Denmark links
Stafford Morris Staffordshire,UK (none)
Sweyn's Ey Morris and Sword Dancers Wales,UK (none)
Thames Valley Morris Surrey,UK (none)
The Illustrious Order of Fools & Beasts Various,UK (none)
Three Horseshoes Oxfordshire,UK (none)
Towersey Horseshoes Oxfordshire,UK (none)
Trigg Morris Cornwall,UK notes
Uttoxeter Heart of Oak Morris Dancers Staffordshire,UK (none)
Viking Bay Morris Thanet, Kent,UK set
Village Green MM Manitoba,Canada (none)
Wadard Kent,UK (none)
Wantsum Morris Men Kent,UK (none)
Waters Green Cheshire,UK tunes
Weald of Kent Kent,UK (none)
West Somerset Morris Somerset,UK (none)
Westminster London,UK (none)
Whitchurch Morris Buckinghamshire,UK (none)
Woodside Hertfordshire,UK (none)
Wyvern Jubilee Morris Somerset,UK (none)
Yateley Morris Men Hampshire,UK (none)